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Letter "T" » toil
«Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please»
«So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
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«Our clerics neither evangelize like the apostles, nor go to war like the secular lords, nor toil like laborers»
Author: John Wycliffe
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apostles, cleric, clerics, evangelize, evangelized, go to war, laborers, lords, secular, The Apostles, toil
«No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt»
Author: Max Beerbohm
(Wit, Writer)
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Work
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concentration, self-sacrifice, toil
«Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.»
«Luck is not chance - It's Toil - Fortune's expensive smile Is earned»
«There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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«There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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contending, drought, eviscerate, eviscerated, flood, gape, gaped, gapes, gaping, mirth, parch, parched, parching, The Drought, toil, upper, upper hand
«One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.»
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